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- Utah is not a theocracy on paper. Utah’s constitution guarantees religious freedom. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints insists it does not attempt to direct or dictate to government leaders. Official neutrality and practical power diverge in daily life. People who have lived in the state will notice the gap. That gap is […]
- Visitors sometimes ask why wasmormon.org exists, or why former members don’t just move on. Fair questions deserve straight answers. Occasionally, though, the mail isn’t a question—it’s a script: pity, prophecy, and the old line that people who leave should leave the Church alone. We recently received that kind of message and had an insightful exchange. Below is the full […]
- The historically black Morehouse College campus in Atlanta, Georgia, includes an International Chapel that bears the name of the school’s most renowned alumnus, Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2023, the Chapel added a portrait of the then-president of the LDS Church, Russell M. Nelson. More recently, the chapel also added a portrait of church founder […]
- Latter-day Saints are often taught that prophetic authority is the foundation of continuing revelation—that God speaks through living prophets, and that their words carry divine weight. Few church leaders embraced that idea more boldly than Brigham Young. Unlike modern leaders who carefully qualify their statements, Young made an unambiguous claim about his own authority and […]
- The practice of plural marriage by Joseph Smith Jr. represents one of the most documented yet deliberately obscured chapters in Mormon history. While the LDS Church now acknowledges that Smith had between 30 and 40 plural wives, this admission came only after decades of denials and represents a fraction of the full truth about the […]
- Historians generally agree on a distinction that is crucial for understanding Mormonism’s survival: martyrdom is not evidence of truth, but it is powerful social capital. Joseph Smith’s death did the opposite of what his enemies intended. It turned him into a martyr, and gave his followers resolve. Martyrdom provides a ready-made narrative of persecution and […]
- Elder David Bednar recently received pushback for his response to a question posed during a devotional about families and the gospel. The question asked, “How do temple covenants help us when someone in our family uses their agency to reject the gospel or chooses not to be part of the family?” Bednar’s answer followed a […]
- For generations, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been taught that the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price was translated from ancient Egyptian papyri by Joseph Smith, “written by his own hand upon papyrus.” This claim lies at the heart of the book’s authority within LDS scripture […]
- At a devotional during BYU’s Education Week, Gerrit W. Gong, LDS Apostle, speaking to an audience in the Marriott Center on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, preached against artificial intelligence (AI) in a gospel context. Artificial intelligence is not God and cannot be God. Artificial intelligence cannot replace revelation or generate truth from God. As Church […]
- For those of us raised in Mormonism, we were taught that our faith is the “one true church” restored through a prophet who saw God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees. Christians more broadly believe that God revealed himself through scripture, miracles, and the life of Jesus. Muslims trace their faith […]
- In his BYU–Idaho devotional Millions Shall Know Brother Joseph Again, Jayson Kunzler urges students to reject any information—inside or outside the Church—that might “humanize” Joseph Smith or acknowledge his flaws. He warns that those who study inconvenient history “serve the wrong master” and risk their eternal standing. He insists that members can only truly know […]
- Today, the First Vision stands as one of the central pillars of Mormon belief. Missionaries introduce it as the beginning of the Restoration. Members cite it as the ultimate evidence that God and Jesus Christ are two distinct beings, and that Joseph Smith was chosen as a prophet. But this was not always the case. […]
- “Common for Their Time”? The Myth That Excuses Exploitation One of the most persistent defenses of early Mormon polygamy is the claim that it was “normal for the time” for men to marry teenage girls. The official Gospel Topics Essay on Plural Marriage in Early Utah even states: Women did marry at fairly young ages […]
- When deconstructing religious beliefs, examining whether the God we’ve been taught to worship and admire is indeed as loving as we think is on the table for many. Christianity teaches that “God is Love,” but examining scriptural narratives reveals inconsistencies in this portrayal, especially concerning God’s actions as a parental figure. Here are several examples […]
- In July 1842, the Sangamo Journal published the affidavit of Martha H. Brotherton, a young English convert who had only recently arrived in Nauvoo with her family. In it, she recounts a disturbing encounter where she was pressured by church leaders Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Joseph Smith himself to become Young’s plural wife. […]
- The LDS Church is Just Another Man-Made Religion One of the hardest truths to face when stepping back from Mormonism is this: The LDS Church is just a man-made religion, no more divinely authoritative than any other. That sentence alone might feel heavy, especially for a “true believing Mormon” (TBM). It cuts directly against the […]
- The Audacity The recent Deseret News opinion piece condemning polygamy and polyamory as a “direct threat to kids” and insisting that “monogamy ought to remain our social ideal” is dripping with irony. For a newspaper owned by the LDS Church to rail against the supposed dangers of polygamy—without mentioning their own history as America’s largest […]
- In the History of the Church, Vol. 6, Joseph Smith made an arrogant claim: I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by […]